Students required to take this course: (by program
and year, as appropriate)
Applied and Computational Mathematics graduate students in the Scientific
Computing concentration.

Students who might elect to take the course:
Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in mathematics,
physics, imaging science, and engineering.

3.0 Goals of the course (including rationale for
the course , when appropriate):
To be able to apply matrix formulations in problem solving, to learn canonical
decompositions used in developing matrix-based algorithms and to be able to use
existing software packages in solving matrix -based problems

4.0 Course description (as it will appear in the
RIT Cata log , including pre - and corequisites,
quarters offered)1016–712 Numerical Linear AlgebraThis course is a rigorous study of theoretical concepts and computational
issues in
linear algebra. Topics include an analysis of Gaussian elimination with
pivoting , its
error and its stability, iterative methods for solving linear systems, matrixfactorizations , eigenvalues, singular value decomposition, Krylov subspace
methods
and application to least squares, systems of nonlinearequations and partialdifferential equations . This course requires independent study of certain topics
that
are not covered in the class lectures. Software packages like MATLAB will be
utilized through several computing projects. (1016-331, 1016-432 recommended)Class 4, Credit 4 (W)

8.0 Program or general education goals supported by
this course8.1 To develop students’ understanding of the mathematical framework that
supports
engineering, science, and mathematics.
8.2 To develop a capacity for critical and analytical thinking.
8.3 To develop an appropriate level of mathematical literacy and competency.

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